Photography — 1961-02-18
Bertrand Russell at the anti-Polaris protest, Whitehall
The 89-year-old philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) sits cross-legged, facing the camera, at an Anti-Polaris Rally. Russell was renowned for his social activism during the 1950s and 60s. A founder of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1958, he received a two-month prison sentence (reduced on appeal to one week) for his anti-nuclear protesting. Behind him sits Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid.
Polaris was the UK's first submarine-launched nuclear ballistic missile system. The Anti-Polaris sit-down protest took place outside the Ministry of Defence in 1961.
- Category:
- Photography
- Object ID:
- HG2056/17
- Object name:
- Bertrand Russell at the anti-Polaris protest, Whitehall
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- Artist/Maker:
- Grant, Henry
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- Production date:
- 1961-02-18
- Material:
cellulose acetate
- Measurements/duration:
- 6 x 6
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- Record quality:
- 60%
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- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
Purchased with V&A Purchase Grant Fund support.
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London Museum
- Image credit:
© Henry Grant Collection/London Museum
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- CC BY-NC 4.0
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